As an old steam engineer I say this with a heavy heart, but . . . enough with the presidential mania over steam catapults in Ford-class carriers:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/trump-wants-goddamned-steam-navy-aircraft-carrier-launches-he-should-stop-60627

The roll of shame might surprise you –

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/let-me-tell-you-about-worst-submarine-all-time-58337

Prophesying is a fool’s game, but here are some broad contours of a war in the Strait of Hormuz –

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-iran-naval-war-2019-what-it-could-look-57012

Few pungent remarks on the fast-moving and rather mysterious situation in the Persian Gulf –

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/442546-persian-gulf-is-vital-enough-for-us-to-go-to-war

Retrospective on a low point in U.S. naval history –

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/battleship-mystery-back-1989-one-navys-last-battleships-big-guns-exploded-55647

Battle of Manila Bay—121st Anniversary

NATO navies are operating in the Mediterranean Sea in force, and signaling they won’t be shut out by Russia –

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/200000-tons-diplomacy-2-navy-aircraft-carriers-are-making-statement-mediterranean-54517